The Tyrant Can Read Minds, So Every Day He Hears Me Call Him a Dog

Mind-reading | palace intrigue and juicy gossip | laid-back heroine | absurd sweet romance | laugh-out-loud comedy

Shen Zhiyi transmigrated into a book, becoming a low-ranking consort who had just entered the palace.

Armed with the [Gossip System], all she wanted was to laze around and wait to die in the harem of this short-lived tyrant, while enjoying the shocking secrets of the court officials.

On the outside, she trembles with fear. “Your Majesty is so mighty and imposing. This concubine is terrified.”

In her head, the comments fly: [So this is the unlucky guy who's going to drop dead in three years? He's actually pretty handsome. Too bad he's short-lived. If only I could swindle his jade thumb ring and sell it.]

The tyrant Xiao Ci, ruler of all under heaven, suddenly hears this treasonous inner voice.

Watching the woman on the ground before him, trembling like a quail, he is so furious he laughs.

He'd planned to have her executed just for fun, but then he discovers that listening to her complaints actually cures the chronic headaches that have tormented him for years.

And so the court takes a dramatic turn:

The Noble Consort cries that she's been wronged?

Shen Zhiyi thinks: [Why pretend to be a delicate white lotus? Weren't you hiding under the covers last night, sticking pins into a little doll? That cursed doll is under the third brick from the left beneath your bed!]

Xiao Ci: “Go tear up the floor beneath the Noble Consort's bed.”

The Minister of Revenue is the very soul of loyalty?

Shen Zhiyi thinks: [That old fox is rotten to the core. He buried all eight hundred thousand taels of gold he embezzled beneath the crooked tree in his concubine's backyard.]

Xiao Ci: “Go search the Minister's residence. Remember to dig up the tree.”

Later, Shen Zhiyi finds herself cornered by the tyrant, her legs turning weak.

“Y-Your Majesty, this concubine really is just a lazy fish!”

Xiao Ci closes in, step by step, and whispers in her ear, “Go on, curse me. You called me a dog in your head, didn't you? Why'd you stop?”

Shen Zhiyi: !!!